http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/trees ... -1.4132679
tl;dr: If we want to plant trees to counter our carbon emissions, then we have to stop planting food crops and cut down half of the world's existing forests to make enough room for all the carbon-credit trees. Then we have to figure out what to do with all the wood we grow (wood isn't edible even though it would need to replace all of our food crops) without generating any more carbon emissions, because all those trees need to come down to make room for more trees in a decade or two.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
tl;dr: If we want to plant trees to counter our carbon emissions, then we have to stop planting food crops and cut down half of the world's existing forests to make enough room for all the carbon-credit trees. Then we have to figure out what to do with all the wood we grow (wood isn't edible even though it would need to replace all of our food crops) without generating any more carbon emissions, because all those trees need to come down to make room for more trees in a decade or two.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012